Re: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed

[Andreas Schwab]

Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:10:59PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> [...]
>> What OS and version of glibc? I do get the error message but I
>> get both a and b in the file.
>> 
>> That was on Linux, glibc 2.6.1.
> [...]
>
> Actually,
>
> bash -c 'echo a; echo b > a' >&-
>
> is enough for me to reproduce the problem.

Guess you have a buggy libc, then.

Andreas.

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